When adding administrator or monitor passwords to the server
properties file, conf/properties.txt
, make sure the
file is not publicly accessible through your Web server and is not
readable by others on your server system.
Only the vcclient
subdirectory should be accessible
through your Web server when the VOLANO chat server is installed
following the instructions in the Administrator Guide. You can
prevent others on the system from reading the file by modifying its
permissions. On UNIX systems such as Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Mac
OS X, you can set its permissions by running the chmod
command below from the VOLANO chat server installation directory:
$ chmod 600 conf/properties.txt
After that command, the server properties file will have the
UNIX file permissions shown below when installed under a username
of volano
. This allows only the user logged in as
volano
, or programs (such as the VOLANO chat server)
running under the account, to read and modify the file:
$ ls -l conf/properties.txt -rw------- 1 volano volano 4560 2009-03-04 08:22 conf/properties.txt
This is the monitor version of the VolanoChat applet. You must
first set the server.password
server property before you
can access the server as a monitor. Monitors can remove, kick, and ban
people in any of the chat rooms.
The applet tag for this applet is the same as the normal VolanoChat applet except for the following additional parameter:
<param name="monitor" value="true" />
This is the administrator version of the VolanoChat applet. You must
first set the admin.password
server property before you can
access the server as an administrator. Administrators can remove, kick,
and ban people in any of the chat rooms. In addition, administrators can
send broadcast messages into all of the public and personal chat
rooms.
The applet tag for this applet is the same as the normal VolanoChat applet except for the following additional parameter:
<param name="admin" value="true" />